"The Crying Game The Crying Game is a 1992 British thriller film written and directed by Neil Jordan. The film explores themes of race, gender, nationality, and sexuality against the backdrop of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. The film is about the experiences of the main character, Fergus (Stephen Rea), a member of the IRA, his brief but meaningful encounter with a soldier, Jody (Forest Whitaker), who is held prisoner by the group, and his unexpected romantic relationship with Jody's girlfriend, Dil (Jaye Davidson), whom Fergus promised Jody he would protect. However, unexpected events force Fergus to decide what he"
"comedy film ""."" This was a joke reference to the film ""The Crying Game,"" with which it shared a plot point. The Crying Game (song) ""The Crying Game"" is a song written and composed by Geoff Stephens. It was first released by Dave Berry in July 1964. It reached #5 on the UK Singles Chart. Session guitarist Big Jim Sullivan played lead guitar on Berry's version of the song, and Jimmy Page supported. The song was recorded by Brenda Lee in 1965. It was subsequently covered by many artists including: The Associates, Chris Connor, Kylie Minogue, Percy Sledge, Barbara Dickson,"
"The Crying Game (song) ""The Crying Game"" is a song written and composed by Geoff Stephens. It was first released by Dave Berry in July 1964. It reached #5 on the UK Singles Chart. Session guitarist Big Jim Sullivan played lead guitar on Berry's version of the song, and Jimmy Page supported. The song was recorded by Brenda Lee in 1965. It was subsequently covered by many artists including: The Associates, Chris Connor, Kylie Minogue, Percy Sledge, Barbara Dickson, Chris Spedding, Jimmy Scott (on his 1998 album ""Holding Back the Years""), and crooner Alex Moore. ""The Crying Game"" was covered"
"film for what Jordan called ""the sexual politics"". The film earned critical acclaim and was nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Film Editing, Best Actor (Rea), Best Supporting Actor (Davidson) and Best Director. Writer-director Jordan finally won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. The film went on to success around the world, including re-releases in Britain and Ireland. ""Critics in Los Angeles and New York, where 'The Crying Game' opened last week, were ecstatic about Jordan's picture, greeting it with 39 positive reviews, one negative review and six mixed notices, according to Weekly Variety's reviewers poll""."
"""The Crying Game"" received worldwide acclaim from critics. Roger Ebert gave the film a four-star rating and described it as one that ""involves us deeply in the story, and then it reveals that the story is really about something else altogether."" Richard Corliss, in ""Time"" magazine, stated ""And the secret? Only the meanest critic would give that away, at least initially."" He reveals the secret by means of an acrostic, forming a sentence from the first letter of each paragraph. Considering its discussion of race, nationality and sexuality, much has been written about ""The Crying Game"". Theorist and author Judith"
"Crying Game"", which was nominated for six Academy Awards. Jordan won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the film. Its unexpected success led him back to American studio filmmaking, where he directed ""Interview with the Vampire"". He also directed the crime drama ""The Brave One"" starring Jodie Foster. Neil Gaiman announced during his ""The Today Show"" appearance on 27 January 2009, that Neil Jordan would be directing the film of his Newbery Medal-winning book ""The Graveyard Book"". Jordan also wrote and directed the Irish made film ""Ondine"" (2009), starring Colin Farrell and Alicja Bachleda-Curuś. He also directed ""Byzantium"","
"wants for the future, and ultimately what his nature dictates he must do. A critical and commercial success, ""The Crying Game"" won the BAFTA Award for Best British Film as well as the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, alongside Oscar nominations for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor for Rea, Best Supporting Actor for Davidson, and Best Film Editing. In 1999, the British Film Institute named it the 26th-greatest British film of all time. At a fairground in rural Northern Ireland, Provisional IRA volunteer Fergus and a unit of other IRA members, including a woman named Jude, led by"
"Jaye Davidson Jaye Davidson (born Alfred Amey; March 21, 1968) is an American-born British model and retired actor. He is best known for his role as the transgender woman Dil in the 1992 suspense-drama thriller film ""The Crying Game"" for which he received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor; and for appearing in 1994's ""Stargate"" as the god-like Ra. Davidson, who had no acting experience, was discovered by a casting associate at a wrap party for Derek Jarman's ""Edward II"". His androgynous look led to his casting as Dil in ""The Crying Game"". He later played"
"gua"")<br> 3. Pernilla August – ""The Best Intentions"" (""Den goda viljan"") 1. Gene Hackman – ""Unforgiven""<br> 2. Jaye Davidson – ""The Crying Game""<br> 3. Delroy Lindo – ""Malcolm X"" 1. Judy Davis – ""Husbands and Wives""<br> 2. Miranda Richardson – ""The Crying Game"", ""Damage"" and ""Enchanted April""<br> 3. Vanessa Redgrave – ""Howards End"" 1. David Webb Peoples – ""Unforgiven""<br> 2. Neil Jordan – ""The Crying Game""<br> 3. Michael Tolkin – ""The Player"" 1. Zhao Fei – ""Raise the Red Lantern (Da hong deng long gao gao gua"")<br> 2. Jean de Segonzac – ""Laws of Gravity""<br> 3. Jack N. Green –"
"Oscar–winning performance by Simone Signoret. In September 2012, BBC television broadcast a two-part dramatisation that had been delayed because of a dispute over copyright. Matthew McNulty was in the lead role. After achieving literary success, Braine moved to the south of England, living for a time in Woking. He wrote several more novels, including ""Life at the Top"", a sequel to ""Room at the Top"". His 1968 novel ""The Crying Game"" is set in London and captures some of the atmosphere of the 'Swinging Sixties'. (It is not related to the 1992 film of the same name). His 1974 book"
"Stephen Woolley Stephen Woolley (born 3 September 1956 in London) is an English film producer and director. He is best known for his work with director Neil Jordan, which has resulted in a number of critically acclaimed films, including the Oscar-winning ""The Crying Game"". After programming The Screen On The Green cinema in Islington, North London, and managing The Scala Cinema near King's Cross railway station, Woolley established Palace Video in the early 1980s to distribute the types of cult cinema and international art films that had been the core of his cinema programmes. The company then moved into cinema"
"person. I'm reasonably thin. I have long hair, which isn't very popular with gay men."" He later adopted a more masculine look, with a shaved head, tattoos and more developed physique. Jaye Davidson Jaye Davidson (born Alfred Amey; March 21, 1968) is an American-born British model and retired actor. He is best known for his role as the transgender woman Dil in the 1992 suspense-drama thriller film ""The Crying Game"" for which he received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor; and for appearing in 1994's ""Stargate"" as the god-like Ra. Davidson, who had no acting experience,"
"Dún Laoghaire, within the southern suburbs of Dublin. In 2018, he has donated his archives to the National Library of Ireland. Jordan's donation included TV and film scripts, production files, notebooks, storyboards and personal correspondence with artists and political figures. Neil Jordan Neil Patrick Jordan (born 25 February 1950) is an Irish film director, screenwriter, novelist and short-story writer. His first book, ""Night in Tunisia"", won a Somerset Maugham Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize in 1979. He won an Academy Award (Best Original Screenplay) for ""The Crying Game"" (1992). He has also won three Irish Film and Television Awards,"
"1992 National Society of Film Critics Awards The 27th National Society of Film Critics Awards, given on 3 January 1993, honored the best filmmaking of 1992. 1. Unforgiven<br> 2. ""The Crying Game""<br> 3. ""The Player"" 1. Clint Eastwood – ""Unforgiven""<br> 2. Robert Altman – ""The Player""<br> 3. Neil Jordan – ""The Crying Game"" 1. Stephen Rea – ""The Crying Game""<br> 2. Clint Eastwood – ""Unforgiven""<br> 3. Denzel Washington – ""Malcolm X"" 1. Emma Thompson – ""Howards End""<br> 2. Susan Sarandon – ""Lorenzo's Oil"" and ""Light Sleeper""<br> 3. Gong Li – ""Raise the Red Lantern"" (""Da hong deng long gao gao"
"2005 film ""Stoned"", was a biopic of Brian Jones. Woolley is married to fellow film producer Elizabeth Karlsen, with whom he co-founded Number 9 Films in 2002. Stephen Woolley Stephen Woolley (born 3 September 1956 in London) is an English film producer and director. He is best known for his work with director Neil Jordan, which has resulted in a number of critically acclaimed films, including the Oscar-winning ""The Crying Game"". After programming The Screen On The Green cinema in Islington, North London, and managing The Scala Cinema near King's Cross railway station, Woolley established Palace Video in the early"
"Cry of the City Cry of the City is a 1948 black-and-white film noir directed by Robert Siodmak based on the novel by Henry Edward Helseth, ""The Chair for Martin Rome"". The screenwriter Ben Hecht worked on the film's script, but is not credited. The film was partly shot on location in New York City. Martin Rome (Richard Conte), a hardened criminal, is recuperating in a hospital from a shootout that resulted in the death of a police officer. At the hospital, he is secretly visited by his fiancée, Teena Ricante (Debra Paget). A shady lawyer representing another crook, Niles"
"get his brother to embrace life and not to end up like their father. Nicholas bursts into tears, relaxes, and begins to enjoy the party once his shock has dissipated. When he sees that Christine has left the party, he follows her outside to her cab. He asks her to dinner, and she offers to share a coffee with him before her flight takes her to her next game assignment in Australia. ""The Game"" began as a spec screenplay, written by John Brancato and Michael Ferris in 1991. It was sold that year to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), who put the project"
"The Game (play) The Game is a play by Harold Brighouse, first published in 1920 as one of ""Three Lancashire Plays"", the other two plays being ""The Northerners"" and ""Zack"". The play is centred on a fictional football team, Blackton Rovers, their star player Jack Metherell and the family of club owner Austin Whitworth. In 1920 the play was adapted into a film ""The Winning Goal"" directed by G.B. Samuelson. Professional footballer Jack Cock appeared as himself in the film. It was revived by Northern Broadsides in 2010 after a period of near oblivion. Barrie Rutter, the company's artistic director,"
"to 2003.) They had been divorced when she died on 23 January 2013. They have two sons. Rea is an Ambassador for UNICEF Ireland. Stephen Rea Stephen Rea ( ; born 31 October 1946) is an Irish film and stage actor. Rea has appeared in films such as ""V for Vendetta"", ""Michael Collins"", ""Interview with the Vampire"" and ""Breakfast on Pluto"". Rea was nominated for an Academy Award for his lead performance as Fergus in the 1992 film ""The Crying Game"". He has during later years had important roles in the Hugo Blick TV series ""The Shadow Line"" and ""The"
"Stephen Rea Stephen Rea ( ; born 31 October 1946) is an Irish film and stage actor. Rea has appeared in films such as ""V for Vendetta"", ""Michael Collins"", ""Interview with the Vampire"" and ""Breakfast on Pluto"". Rea was nominated for an Academy Award for his lead performance as Fergus in the 1992 film ""The Crying Game"". He has during later years had important roles in the Hugo Blick TV series ""The Shadow Line"" and ""The Honourable Woman"", for which he won a BAFTA Award. Rea was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, to Protestant parents; his father was a bus"
"The Imitation Game The Imitation Game is a 2014 American historical drama film directed by Morten Tyldum and written by Graham Moore, based on the biography """" by Andrew Hodges. It stars Benedict Cumberbatch as British cryptanalyst Alan Turing, who decrypted German intelligence codes for the British government during the Second World War. Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode, Rory Kinnear, Charles Dance, and Mark Strong also star. The screenplay topped the annual Black List for best unproduced Hollywood scripts in 2011. The Weinstein Company acquired the film for $7 million in February 2014, the highest amount ever paid for U.S. distribution"
"Screamplay Screamplay is a 1985 American horror film directed by Rufus Butler Seder. Aspiring screenwriter Edgar Allen (Rufus B. Seder) arrives in Hollywood carrying his most valuable possessions: a battered suitcase and a typewriter. Edgar Allen's best attribute is his wild imagination. He imagines scenes so vividly for the murder mystery he is writing that they seem to come to life...and they do! As mysterious gruesome murders pile up, Edgar Allen must confront aging actresses, rock stars and the police in a bleak setting of broken dreams and hideously broken bodies in Hollywood. As the line between reality and imagination"
"The Battle Cry of Peace The Battle Cry of Peace is a 1915 American silent war drama film directed by Wilfrid North and J. Stuart Blackton, one of the founders of Vitagraph Company of America who also wrote the scenario. The film is based on the book ""Defenseless America"", by Hudson Maxim, and was distributed by V-L-S-E, Incorporated. The film stars Charles Richman, L. Rogers Lytton, and James W. Morrison. Alternate titles for this film were A Call to Arms and The Battle Cry of War. In the UK, the film was called An American Home. A sequel followed in"
"Schlesinger's lyrics and Mark O'Donnell and Thomas Meehan's book are both more inventively crass and less snarky than those of other contemporary musical winkfests; you get the sense that these writers share Waters' affection for his goofy subjects."" Cry-Baby (musical) Cry-Baby is a musical based on the 1990 John Waters film of the same name. The music is by David Javerbaum and Adam Schlesinger, and the book is by Mark O'Donnell and Thomas Meehan. O'Donnell and Meehan also adapted Waters' film ""Hairspray"" for the musical stage. The musical focuses on Baltimore teenager Allison Vernon-Williams, who is drawn across the tracks"
"The Mating Game (film) The Mating Game (1959) is an MGM Metrocolor film in CinemaScope directed by George Marshall, and starring Debbie Reynolds, Tony Randall and Paul Douglas in his final film role. Reynolds sings the title song during the opening credits. The film was written by William Roberts very loosely based on a British novel, ""The Darling Buds of May"" by H. E. Bates, which was later adapted into a more faithful 1991–93 British miniseries, starring Catherine Zeta-Jones in the role that Debbie Reynolds plays in the film. The film has been featured on Turner Classic Movies, and was"
"Playing the Game Playing the Game is a 1918 American silent comedy drama film directed by Victor Schertzinger and written by Julien Josephson and R. Cecil Smith. The film stars Charles Ray, Doris May, Harry L. Rattenberry, Robert McKim, William Elmer, and Leota Lorraine. The film was released on May 5, 1918, by Paramount Pictures. It is not known whether the film currently survives, and it may be a lost film. As described in a film magazine, believing that killed a professional dancer in a cafe brawl, Larry Prentiss (Ray) along with his valet Hodges (Elmer) flee to the west"
"The Killing Game (2011 film) The Killing Game is a 2011 Lifetime Original Movie based on the novel ""The Killing Game"" by Iris Johansen. It was directed by Bobby Roth. Forensic sculptor Eve Duncan (Laura Prepon) who, 10 years after the disappearance and murder of her seven-year-old daughter Bonnie, is contacted by a man claiming to be her killer. Taunted by the man's mysterious clues about Bonnie's case, Eve becomes involved in his sadistic game when he threatens to kill another little girl that he targeted because she resembles her precious daughter. Memories haunt her as she is caught in"
"Out Cry Out Cry is a play by Tennessee Williams, his rewrite of ""The Two-Character Play"" which he had written in 1966 and which was staged in 1967 and published by New Directions Publications in 1969. Williams began rewriting the play after its publication, and ""Out Cry"" premiered at the Ivanhoe Theatre in Chicagoon July 8, 1971, with Eileen Herlie as Clare and Donald Madden as Felice. It debuted on Broadway at the Lyceum Theatre with a preview on February 28, 1973 and ran from March 1 to 10; the production was directed by Peter Glenville and starred Cara Duff-MacCormick"
"Death Game Death Game (also known as The Seducers) is a 1977 American horror-thriller film directed by Peter S. Traynor and written by Anthony Overman and Michael Ronald Ross. The film stars Sondra Locke, Colleen Camp, and Seymour Cassel. ""Death Game"" tells the story of George Manning, a well-to-do San Francisco businessman, husband, and father who invites a pair of rain-soaked young women into his house to wait out an evening thunderstorm. The two girls seduce Manning and ultimately kidnap and torture him in his own home. Traynor, a former California real-estate financier, entered a career in filmmaking as a"
"The Cry (book) Jane Collier's and Sarah Fielding's The Cry: A New Dramatic Fable (1754) was Fielding's sixth and Collier's second and final work. The work is an allegorical and satirical novel. Collier and Fielding had worked together previously when Fielding wrote ""The Governess"" and when Collier wrote ""An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting"", but ""The Cry"" is the only work that can be positively ascribed to the two together. Collier died the year after its publication. The novel was originally produced in three volumes and divided into five parts. The work involves many stories told through the"
"success of ""Swimming At The Ritz"" in 2009, in the summer of 2010, it was part of ""The New Vic's New Writing Festival"". Vantyler and Dean resumed their roles, this time under the direction of Roland Jaquarello, a venture that would see all three receiving critical acclaim for this new play by New York City writer Charles Leipart. It ran alongside ""Reeling"", a play by Jeff Thompson based on the disappearance of a 1920s German movie star, in which Vantyler played the lead, opposite Elizabeth Counsell and June Watson. Harold Brighouse wrote ""The Game"" in 1914, and it was performed"
"played Peter. Anthony Dalton played Donnie. Greg Stewart played Eddie. Laugh to Keep from Crying Laugh to Keep from Crying is a play written and directed by American playwright Tyler Perry. The show first opened in the fall of 2009. The play is a mixture of comedy, drama, and music, set at an inner-city building in a predominantly African-American neighborhood. The story revolves around a small group of people living in an inner-city building in a predominantly African-American neighborhood. Carol (Cheryl Pepsii Riley) is a single mother raising two teenagers: Tony (Donny Sykes), who is studious and participates in gospel"
"pleasures"". Corliss along with Richard Schickel made a 100 Greatest movies list. Corliss alone created lists of the 25 greatest villains, the 25 best horror films, and the 25 most important films on race. In addition Corliss was on the 2001 jury for AFI's 100 Greatest movies list. In a 1993 ""Time magazine"" movie review of ""The Crying Game"", Corliss subtly gave away the spoiler of the film, by spelling it out with the first letters of each paragraph of his review. Corliss has had movies on his top ten lists that fellow ""Time"" critic Richard Schickel has rated the"